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ENDA AND JOAN got their hands of some pretty jazzy looking orange trainers today.
They came as part of one of the more extravagant jobs launches Ireland has seen in recent times - with German online fashion company Zalando using boat travel and a catwalk show to promote its new ‘Fashion Insights Centre’.
Dignitaries from Ireland and Germany were transported from Grand Canal Dock across to an area now dubbed ‘Silicon Docks’.
Attendees had not been informed beforehand where they were going or even what company was hosting.
Kevin Sammon / TwitterNot your usual mode of transport to a jobs announcement #InvestInIreland pic.twitter.com/vEr9y6zXo5
— Kevin Sammon (@SammonKevin) April 22, 2015
Upon arriving at the location, the attendees were joined by Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Tánaiste Joan Burton, and were treated to a fashion show by models wearing the company’s clothing and footwear.
The 200 jobs the company is creating in Ireland will be focused on the tech side of the business. Zalando specialises in selling clothes, shoes and lifestyle products online.
The ‘Fashion Insights Centre’ will be focusing on the areas of research and development, big data analysis, data science and engineering.
Also present at the launch today was the firm’s founder, Robert Gentz, who said the new Dublin-based centre would play a “major role” for the company in their continued European development.
Kevin Sammon / TwitterThe fashion show just finished here at @Zalando - definitely the trendiest announcement I've been to! pic.twitter.com/KgUOldMoZ0
— Kevin Sammon (@SammonKevin) April 22, 2015
Speaking at the launch, Taoiseach Enda Kenny said: “Ireland’s pre-eminent position at the cutting edge of technology did not happen by accident.
Our economy is an open and business-friendly one, with minimum of red tape or administrative hurdles. Investing companies find certainty and transparency here.
The company currently operate in 15 countries across Europe. The new jobs will be created over a three-year period and the company is supported by IDA Ireland.
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I live up in Drogheda and one of the selling points that the estate agents pushed when we were buying was a second train station as the train line runs right at the back of where we live.
Never happened and it’s ridiculous because it’s badly needed. Trying to get over the other side of town in the morning is crazy and parking was ridiculous unless you were there before 7am.
They also need to reopen the Navan line
You must not live in Drogheda Emma. Where the proposed new station was to the current station is close to a 40 minute walk
@emma navan line will never open for passengers look what’s happening in bus eireann.
How much are they paying a consultant to tell them what to do ? Can’t they work it out themselves ?
Passenger numbers through Adamstown and Clondalkin are very small compared to Hazelhatch, Sallins and even Parkwest. There is no demand for this new station, even with the new grand canal service. Waste of money.
Partly because there is limited effort to get people onto the route, plus a train to Houston is not much good if you work in the city centre.
Irish Rail are cutting services are there on about opening a new station on the Dublin Cork line very good to all involved and to the big boy Shane Ross and the mighty Enda and his cronies that does NOT make sense to any one()
This is ridiculous stuff. Better, more efficient public transport will help to solve a lot of the issues in this country, namely economic development too centred on Co Dublin as well as the roots of the housing crisis.
Better public transport infrastructure will mean people won’t need to live so close to Dublin and the overall commuter belt will grow but in general, economic development will spread more evenly within that zone and congestion won;t be such an issue at one end of it, as is the case nowadays
Should be more stations everywhere, get there fingers out of their holes, invest in some sort of future for the country!
Plenty of stations/lines outside Dublin require reopening.
If the government is serious about getting cars off the road they need to invest in public transport.
Youghal to Midleton could badly do with being reinstated. Irish rail however want to permanently close it. Monkeys must be working for the NTA
@emma drogheda has no change of a second station and any1 who bought a house believing this was worse. They won’t open the station in dunleer 10mins further north which would ease alot of droghedas never mind build a new station. Public transport In Ireland is clearly dead in the water. Privatise everything with the likes of micheal o’leary at the helm and it won’t be long turnin around.
@Colin Tinnelly: There should be a park and ride situation at many of the stations – there is no point in trying to encourage people to go on public transport and shove up the car park prices and the train trip prices. There should be a national strategy at Ministerial level to get people on public transport. The principal share holder of CIE does not have a strategy to manage public transport.
if this was on the southside bloody sure it would have been open, they have more transport links then any other part of the city yet, the main roads from wicklow through to the city centre are still clogged up, and now they are getting a cycle way all the way into the city.
Lucan is southside
@Padraig Chambers: westside
There is a ghost station between Carrickmines and loughlinstown.
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